Open Source Agriculture: funding & managing coconut farms with blockchain | Alejandro Adon | Gitcoin Climate Solutions
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Please meet Alejandro Adon of Kokonut Network. Based in the Dominican Republic, Kokonut Network provides blockchain governance and open-source accounting to the agricultural industry. Their mission is to promote, organize, fund, and manage coconut farms around the world. https://kokonut.network/ As a blockchain-based cooperative, Kokonut aims to develop and manage a network of coconut farms, all connected by web3. Their main goal is to address the worldwide lack of funding for agricultural projects. Kokonut helps farmers get the funds they need while creating opportunities for web3 communities...
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Shamba MRV Network & Ecological Oracle | Kennedy Ng'ang'a | Gitcoin Climate Solutions
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Please meet Kennedy Ng'ang'a, Founder & CEO of Shamba, the Ecological Data Oracle & MRV Network. Based out of Nairobi, Kenya, Shamba is an ecological data oracle and Decentralized Monitoring, Reporting & Verification (dMRV) Network. Shamba is building a decentralized #MRV network to power #regenerativefinance (ReFi) and provides affordable MRV powered by web3. Their MRV solution enables smallholders to create carbon credits on their farms irrespective of their size. https://shamba.network/ This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for #climate...
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Get paid to Regenerate the Earth | Sev Nightingale | Gitcoin Climate Solutions
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The Impact App (TIA) and Eco Labs' mission is to make Regeneration an Occupation, where anyone can make a living healing our planet and restoring ecosystems as a Regenerator. They are weaving together technologies to help Regenerators issue Ecological Assets at any scale. This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for #climate as part of the Gitcoin Alpha Round. Please support the project by going to gitcoin.basin.global and adding all grants to your "ballot". Every donation helps no matter how small. With quadratic funding, it is not the $ amount that...
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Regeneration for All | John Ellison from ReFiDAO | Gitcoin Climate Solutions
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ReFiDAO is a founder-led startup community on a mission to accelerate impact for people and planet. TMO is joined today by #ReFi legend John Ellison @climateXcrypto. John is leading the #RegenerativeFinance movement by always asking: How do we transform an extractive capitalist system into a regenerative economy that can heal the earth? This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for #climate as part of the Gitcoin Alpha Round. Please support the project by going to gitcoin.basin.global and adding all grants to your "ballot". Every donation helps no matter...
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Scientific collaboration for ecosystem #regeneration | ReSci Network | Gitcoin Climate Solutions
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Today Sage from ReSci Network joins TMO. ReSci Network is leading ethical, ecosystem regeneration-centric Decentralized Science (#DeSci). They are focused on scientific collaboration for ecosystem #regeneration. This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for #climate as part of the Gitcoin Alpha Round. Please support the project by going to gitcoin.basin.global and adding all grants to your "ballot". Every donation helps no matter how small. With quadratic funding, it is not the $ amount that matters, it is the # of donors. Support your favorite climate...
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Code is Law | LexDAO Legal Engineering | #GitcoinAlpha
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Kyle Smith from LexDAO joins TMO. LexDAO is a legal engineering guild. As a decentralized autonomous organization, LexDAO aims to provide a decentralized marketplace for legal services using blockchain technology. It aims to make legal services more affordable and accessible to individuals and businesses. LEX DAO also aims to create a community-driven platform for legal services, where users can contribute to the development of legal services and share in the governance of the platform. https://linktr.ee/lexdaogrant This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching...
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Regenerative Finance in the Global South | Pranav Khanna | #GitcoinClimate
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This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for #climate as part of the Gitcoin Alpha Round. This segment is with Pranav Khanna of ReFi By South. ReFi by South is a community building project with a goal to localize and scale climate action - through technology and community organizing using regenerative finance (ReFi) in the global South. Please support the project by going to gitcoin.basin.global and adding all grants to your "ballot". Every donation helps no matter how small. With quadratic funding, it is not the $ amount that matters, it is the # of...
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$650M for Natural Capital | Martijn Wilder of Pollination | RWA x ReFi Report
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Today TMO speaks with Martijn Wilder Founder and CEO of Pollination, which is a specialist climate change investment and advisory firm, accelerating the transition to a net zero, nature positive future. Martijn is recognized as a global leader in climate law and investment and has advised governments and companies on innovative climate finance investments. Pollination along with HSBC and Climate Asset Management just raised $650M for #naturalcapital. The funds will invest in agriculture, forestry and environmental assets, while a nature-based carbon strategy will seek to create a pipeline of...
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$333k for Climate! | Gitcoin Climate Round w/ Ben West
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This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for #climate as part of the Gitcoin Alpha Round. Please support the project by going to gitcoin.basin.global and adding all grants to your "ballot". Every donation helps no matter how small. With quadratic funding, it is not the $ amount that matters, it is the # of donors. Support your favorite climate project today! This segment is with Ben West, Cause Round Lead, from Gitcoin. Gitcoin Grants is a community-led initiative that allows users and organizations to directly fund the development of their favorite open...
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Grassroots Climate Action with Bloom Network | Gitcoin Climate
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This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for climate as part of the Gitcoin Alpha Round. Please support the guest's project by going to gitcoin.basin.global and adding all grants to your "ballot". Every donation helps no matter how small. With quadratic funding, it is not the $ amount that matters, it is the # of donors. Support your favorite climate project today! This segment is with Magenta from Bloom Network. Bloom is a cyber-physical social network that helps people find and participate in grassroots climate actions where they live....
info_outlineThis episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for #climate as part of the Gitcoin Alpha Round.
Please support the project by going to gitcoin.basin.global and adding all grants to your "ballot". Every donation helps no matter how small. With quadratic funding, it is not the $ amount that matters, it is the # of donors. Support your favorite climate project today!
This segment is with Ben West, Cause Round Lead, from Gitcoin.
Gitcoin Grants is a community-led initiative that allows users and organizations to directly fund the development of their favorite open source projects and #publicgoods.
The Gitcoin Program Alpha Round is a set of 3 Quadratic Funding grants rounds that will allocate a $1M total matching pool to 200 grantees working on Open Source, Ethereum Infrastructure, and Climate Solutions.
The Climate Solutions Round features 40 climate projects from GR15 that were invited because they received the most support based on the number of unique contributors, and ten bundled use cases for the remaining GR15 projects working in Renewable Energy, Carbon Markets, Verification Infrastructure, Oceans & Forest, Agriculture, Community Engagement, Creative Works, Climate Research, Climate Advocacy & Activism, and Emerging Markets and Indigenous Communities.
This episode is brought to you by .basin which is perpetual place-based climate and nature finance. .basin scales land, ecosystem, and carbon sink restoration and conservation to solve the climate, nature, and carbon crises.
In This Episode:
00:03 Gitcoin Climate Solutions
00:36 Round is funding $333,000 for #climate
00:39 matching funds for climate projects
01:27 climate grants and funding open source software
02:09 funding public goods
03:12 “if you haven't heard of Gitcoin, you're doing web3 wrong"
03:48 open source projects
04:33 grants platform
04:54 quadratic funding
05:24 funded $70 million for public goods
06:21 run by the Gitcoin DAO
07:27 UNICEF used Gitcoin Grants
09:42 empowering the wisdom of the crowd
10:09 trusting the community about how to allocate those funds
11:39 using #quadraticfunding to fund land restoration and conservation
13:45 grants round as a service
15:15 Renewable Energy, Carbon Markets, Verification Infrastructure, Oceans & Forest, Agriculture, Community Engagement, Creative Works, Climate Research, Climate Advocacy & Activism, and Emerging Markets and Indigenous Communities
16:57 coordination and cooperation
18:27 directing funds, resources, talent and energy to real on the ground climate projects
19:21 crypto and blockchain
19:57 carbon accounting or for supply chain
21:03 Gitcoin Passport
22:06 KYC, know your customer
24:15 120,000 people signed up for a Gitcoin passport
25:51 Snapshot
26:18 zero knowledge proof
28:03 blockchain for climate and real world action
28:30 funding climate solutions
29:24 real people doing mangrove restoration and carbon removal and plastic pollution cleanup
31:45 how not to make mistakes in crypto
39:03 funding grants and voting with your Metamask wallet
39:12 donations add up to large sums of money
39:18 Gitcoin testimonial